26. For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after a precious life.
27. Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
28. Can a man walk on burning coalswithout scorching his feet?
29. So it is with the one who sleeps withanother man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30. People don’t despise the thief if he stealsto satisfy himself when he is hungry.
31. Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house.
32. The one who commits adultery lacks sense;whoever does so destroys himself.
33. He will get a beating and dishonor,and his disgrace will never be removed.